I just went to Ario today. The appetizers are great (the fresh rolls aka summer rolls are wonderful, as well as the deep fried tofu) and I LOVE their pad thai. My husband and I especially enjoyed our mango with sticky rice dessert. It is a relief to finally have a great Thai restaurant in the Hudson Valley area. Two thumbs up!

Yep! And it happened overnight (well, not really, but in the course of a week I think). We passed Spot of Tea on a Sunday and said "Oh! Your parents are in town next weekend and they love this stuff...we'll go then" ...But poof! It was gone by the following Sunday

My daughter and I had lunch there 2-3 weeks ago. we got there at about 11;45 and were the only customers until we were almost done eating. We split a papaya salad that was medocre at best, and seemed to be devoid of papaya (I've had this dish at several Thai places, including Sripraphai in Woodside, Queens). Daughter had a vegetarian pad thai and was singularly unimpressed. flavor was relatively bland and many of the ingredients appeared to American and not Asian vegetables. I had the green curry which was not bad, but its flavor was not as complex as I have had at most Thai places. Prices were, in my opinion (even as a Rhinebeck resident) outrageously high (the total bill for these three dishes, no dessert and drinking only water) was about $45). Perhaps we have been spoiled by Sripraphai, but we do not plan to return to Aroi.

no offense, but sripraphai is a gold standard for thai anywhere east of california; comparing *any* place to it isn't really fair.

i'm hoping for someplace just slightly worse than a couple manhattan places i've eaten at, such as chanpen and pongsri.

haven't checked out the rhinebeck place yet, but....get this...there's a place opening on route 9g in hyde park, about 1/2 miles south of the rita's water ice. it's called "thai house" in the former tropics building. i'd really love it if there were a decent thai place around poughkeepsie...

(and as a side note, there's a simple sripraphai drunken noodles recipe floating around on the 'net, which i've made and is *real* good.)

I think the sign has been there for over a month since I saw it the first time. The last restaurant never opened, so I'm not hopeful of this one either. However, the other day when I drove by, there was an Asian guy checking the mail box, and he could be the owner. In that case, I'm still 60% hopeful that it'll open for business.

We've been there a couple of times. The food is fresh and the flavors are good with the items that we've had so far. Price is also reasonable with just about righ portion size. I hope they stay open - we were the only table there the last two times when we went.....

We were very excited when Mole Mole opened near us. We love the restaurant, but hated having to drive to Main Street Poughkeepsie. From what I hear, they do a good lunch business from the At Francis, so don't let the empty dining room fool you.

I lived in Hyde Park for many years. I would have been *thrilled* if we'd had Mexican and Thai restaurants back then. You had to go to Poughkeepsie or even further away to get any kind of "ethnic" food. I still remember the excitement we felt when our first Chinese places opened up.